Justin Calen-Chenn
Co-Producer, BEL-AIR, 12 scripts sold
Justin Calen-Chenn is a TV writer and producer who grew up in a motel and was homeless as a teenager before being unofficially adopted. Hollywood is his second career after a life in crime before leaving in 2017. Justin first drew attention in the industry when his feature action spec was picked up by The Obamas and Netflix. Justin was selected to the 2020 Sundance Episodic Lab and has written on Emmy nominated THE BROTHERS SUN, a Netflix crime-action series starring Michelle Yeoh w/ Brad Falchuk as showrunner. He was in a sci-fi mini-room for an unreleased video game from the co-creator of HALO and was an executive story editor on BEL-AIR Season 2, EP-ed by Will Smith and Malcolm Spellman. He returned in Season 3 and serves as writer and co-producer. He has sold 5 shows to Paramount/CBS Studios with NBA legend Carmelo Anthony and Justin Simien’s Culture Machine producing and AMC Studios with Made with Love and 7 movies to Netflix, Lionsgate, Universal, Miramax, 3Blackdot, Imagine, etc.. Other collaborators include AGBO and Davis Entertainment. He is showrunning an international crime-drama show set in Asia and Europe spearheaded by the former head of all the big streamers in Asia and is writing all the episodes.
